† mendolen.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mendole.

Etymology: < French mendole (1547 in Middle French) < Old Occitan amendolla (1445; Occitan mendòla, amendola), further etymology uncertain and disputed: compare Italian mendola (1598; a1536 as menola ( > French ménole (1671)), of which the Old Occitan word may be a loan (although attested slightly earlier); probably ultimately (via Latin) < ancient Greek μαινίς sprat, or the cognate Hellenistic Greek μαίνη, although probably altered by formal analogy with other words. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (me·ndo^ul) /ˈmɛndəʊl/.

Obsolete.

A picarel, esp. the blotched picarel, Spicara maena. Cf. cackerel n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Smaris

cackerel1585

mendole1854

1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 276 The bream is as worthless a fish as the mendole.

1862 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands I. 206 In its native waters the Mendole is an exceedingly prolific fish.

1890 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Cackerel, the mendole; a small worthless Mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mendole
释义	† mendolen. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mendole. Etymology: < French mendole (1547 in Middle French) < Old Occitan amendolla (1445; Occitan mendòla, amendola), further etymology uncertain and disputed: compare Italian mendola (1598; a1536 as menola ( > French ménole (1671)), of which the Old Occitan word may be a loan (although attested slightly earlier); probably ultimately (via Latin) < ancient Greek μαινίς sprat, or the cognate Hellenistic Greek μαίνη, although probably altered by formal analogy with other words. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (me·ndo^ul) /ˈmɛndəʊl/. Obsolete. A picarel, esp. the blotched picarel, Spicara maena. Cf. cackerel n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Smaris cackerel1585 mendole1854 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 276 The bream is as worthless a fish as the mendole. 1862 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands I. 206 In its native waters the Mendole is an exceedingly prolific fish. 1890 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Cackerel, the mendole; a small worthless Mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1854
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